Zero Waste is a design principle that goes beyond recycling to focus first on reducing wastes and reusing products and then recycling and composting the rest 다운로드. Zero Waste works to redesign the system to mimic natural systems, recognizing that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and everything is a resource for something or someone else 다운로드. Currently, Austin is estimated to lose over $40 million annually by sending materials that could be recycled or reused to area landfills.

Austin’s Zero Waste system will strive to recover that estimated loss and eliminate waste, or get darn close 쉬운성경 다운로드. This Plan defines success as reducing by 20% the per capita solid waste disposed to landfills by 2012, diverting 75% of waste from landfills and incinerators by 2020, and 90% by 2040 니코동 음원 다운로드.

Then, bringing the children into it with a program called Generation Zero다운로드. Offering educational programs at each grade level:

Kindergarten – 2nd grade – classroom composting

3rd – 5th – learning about recycling

Middle School – learn about landfills and visit a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)